XP To install on 'royalty free OEM' machines (HP, DELL, etc.) you can get the vendor's oembios files from, or backed up from the current installation. You then need to use the SLP (system locked preinstallation) key that corresponds to the installation media's product ID.
These used to be archived on the My Digital Life forums, but were. I'm not sure if the particular vendor key is required, or if will work.
How to use the Windows 7 Loader Slic Activation with OEM Information Release 5 to activate Windows 7? Basically it involved 2 stages and here is the stage one: * Download 7Loader activator here and extract it using the compression tool to your computer desktop.
Wic reset utility with serial. Change to Chipless Firmware - it means printer will not need IC Chips on ink cartridges.
If you still have the original installation from the OEM, you can extract the SLP key they used for installation from the registry using a tool like. (Most antivirus seems to complain about produkey, but I've never had issues with it.) can help you create the ISO and be very useful for testing in a VM, but it's quite a bit more difficult to test the SLP activation with the VM. Windows 8/8.1 After a fresh install, the system does not auto activate and when one tries to enter the correct OEM Product Key (extracted from BIOS), it is refused.
The trick is to first remove the current Product Key with slmgr /upk, then the OEM key can be entered and activation works flawlessly. This idea comes from, which also describes how to get the OEM key using RW Everything (including video tutorial!). Really this has saved me several hours, maybe days of experimenting. If you find it helpful, please upvote that answer instead of this one. I also created a small PowerShell script to accomplish all the steps in a fully automated manner, which is great for mass OS deployments (e.g. Using the amazing ): $key=(Get-WmiObject -Class SoftwareLicensingService).OA3xOriginalProductKey iex 'cscript /b C: windows system32 slmgr.vbs /upk' iex 'cscript /b C: windows system32 slmgr.vbs /ipk $key' iex 'cscript /b C: windows system32 slmgr.vbs /ato' Successfully (re)installed and activated 64 Win 8.1 Pro x64 OEM laptops with this.
Windows 7 I found to be invaluable. If you have a computer that has an Windows 7 OEM license embedded in the BIOS SLIC area, and then reinstall a generic image, it will claim to be not genuine. To verify, run this command from a cmd prompt with administrator privs: slmgr.vbs /dlv It will say 'License Status: Notification', and 'Notification Reason: 0xC004F063'. To fix that, find the proper OEM key file, and then run: slmgr.vbs /ilc [VENDOR].xrm-ms where [VENDOR] is the name of your computer vendor. Now run slmgr.vbs /dlv again, and it should say 'License Status: Licensed'.
